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Nearly two-thirds of the Canada's households were online in 2006,
with more Canadians turning to high-speed internet subscriptions.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
(CRTC) released its eighth annual Broadcasting Monitoring Report on
Tuesday, which analyzed the country's radio, television, broadcasting
distribution and new media sectors.

The report illustrates how Canadians are increasingly turning to new media for both entertainment and other activities.

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The bulk of web hosts are still on PHP4, despite PHP5 being out for years. PHP5, and specially PHP5.2, offers a lot of features that make developing in PHP far better than being held back with PHP4's feature set.

So, a bunch of activists in the Drupal community started talking to other PHP based applications to say enough is enough, and push for more adoption of PHP 5.2 by web hosts and projects alike.

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Google launched Street View last week. In a nutshell, it is real images taken by vans, superimposed on Google Maps. The data is available in some select cities, such as New York, Miami, and the like.The level of detail is amazing, seeing people jogging, walking, and more.However, this is raising some privacy concerns. The level of detail is just too close for comfort. A woman has said that her cat is visible behind the window. She asked Google to take the picture down.

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This practice is where people with questionable ethics claim they can improve search engine ranking by doing "search engine optimization". One of the techniques is to post junk comments on high ranking sites containing a back link to the site/page they want to promote, with the appropriate keywords.

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Two articles that I came across, one old and one new, point to a new trend of "caching in on the internet".

The first article is one year old, and it came to my attention via an acquaintance (an MBA!) who wanted to copycat this idea. He read about it in Forbes, went ahead and bought some 50+ domain names and wants me to do "internet real estate development" with him. The second article is from the New York Times today.

Obviously, I refused to do that work due to my aversion to content free sites that have only ads on them.